The moment you realized you were an Atheist...

[needledriver]

6. I remember the exact moment.

I was in 5th grade. I had parents of two religions, so I was raised with Christian and Jewish holidays and traditions - no formal religious training. My parents didn’t push me in any particular direction, but let me make up my own mind. I hadn’t really committed one way or the other on whether there was an omnipotent omniscient bearded dude on a gilded throne with flights of angels hearing every sparrow fall, but one day a girl in class asked me if I believed in God. I said "No." She asked me where I thought the universe came from if god didn’t create it? I asked her "Where did god come from?" and she got a glazed, pious look in her eyes and chanted "He always was and always will be." I thought "This is bullshit." (or the ten year old kid equivalent of this is bullshit).